The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-09
YOUNGER EDITORS OF NEW YORK
A Few Points About the Most Noted
of Them


of Them.
New YORK, Aug. 6.-The younger edit
ors of New York are more or less talked
about. They guide the destinies of the
weekly publications, and are looked up to
with moro or less reverence and admiration
by people who are interested in society,
sport Wall street and the drama.
Perhaps the most successful of the minor
editors of New York was the late Charles
d. Keep, of the Wall Street Ne,oS. He was
an indefatigable worker and a singularly
quiet and transformations man. The i'm
preston prevailed toward the close of his
life that he was rather too fond of advcrtis-
ing himself, but there was no personal
vanity in it. Columns of READING matter"
appeared in the New York daily press con-
tinually about the personal and financial
peculiarities of Charles ID. Keep. 1t was all
of complimentary nature, but every arti-
Gle adroitly pulled patent nostrum in
which the editor was interested. He made
more than S500,00 in less than ten years,
and he established at least two admirable
pieces of property-his paper and his patent
medicine Both were forced to success
from a beginning that was practically
nothing
Perhaps the most notorious of the lesser
editors is Paul Potter, man who is in con-
tinual warfare and who has, nevertheless,
the most amiable and hospitabie nature in
the world. He is remarkable man. For
several years he was at the head of the for
eign department of the Herald. He received
| a very large salary and was far and away
the most accomplished editor that the New
| York press has known Potter is not only
able to speak every tongue and dialect, but
he is familiar with politics all over the
world, and is able to twist cast iron dispatch
| es from Budda Pesth, Moscow and Cape Horn
| into such trenchant English that even bust
ness men are attracted by them. There lisa
| sharp, nasty, satirical vein in his character
and when he gave this full swing in Iomn
| Topics it set the town agog for time. His
contempt for New York society is as com
plete, alas as that of most travelled men,
and he amused himself hugely by picking it
in sore places. He left the paper finally and
went down in Wall street, where he is now
| interested in booming mines l know from
an Individually authoritative source that he
made S14, 900 in one deal. He is man of
really amazing contrasts and accomplish
| ments.
| Potter's successor as editor of ToUl Topics
| is named Alfred Trumbull. He is a man Of
ability and an authority on art matters
| There is something very catching and or
nate about his style of writing, and he is
popular among painters and literary work
| erS. Mr.. IrumbulFs face is very much like
Edwin Booths in poetical expression and
general effect.
Dramatic journalism is decent now. The
survival of the fittest is exemplified again.
There was at one time a number of fly-by-
night Matchmaking sheets, but they have
| given way one after the other until only
two papers of importance remain in the
| field. OF these, the New York Mirror, of
which Mr.. Harrison Grey FisBe is editor,
has forged well ahead and is virtually the
organ of the profession 1t is a we'll
written, readable and honest paper, and it
has been conducted with undertaking skill
Mr.. Fiske is a good deal of man in the
theatrical world. He is polished and urbane,
but there is lots of push behind his serene
placidity. One of the most successful chart
ties, the Actors Fund, owes its prosperity
indeed, its existence-to Mr.. Fiske's efforts.
Truth is modelled on its famous London
namesake, and is edited by an Englishman
named Davidson Danlziel. He comes of a
family of well-1nown brothers and sisters.
Apparently he is trying to make his paper
| of more substantial substance than some
of his contemporaries 1t is readable and
reliable.
| It is a difficult task at best to force q
weekly paper to success in New York now
adays, as the big thirty-page Sunday pa
pers cover all available territory.
| BLAKELY HALL.